Trial By Battle
Published on 5. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-912423-08-8 (ISBN)
Description
October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captin Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.
Reviews / Votes
"A visceral depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare." * Radio Times * "A tremendous rediscovery of a brilliant novel. Extremely well written, its effects are both sophisticated and visceral. Remarkable." -- William Boyd "One of the most absorbing and painful books about jungle warfare that I have read." -- V. S. NaipaulMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
165 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912423-08-8 (9781912423088)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
David Piper was perhaps best known as an art historian and director of the NPG, Fitzwilliam and Ashmolean museums. He served with the Indian Army during the Second World War, eventually becoming a Japanese prisoner of war for three years before his release in 1945. He was knighted in 1983.